(ANN) Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) Version 1.0 approved and published as a Committee Specification

[Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Members,

We are pleased to announce the approval and publication of an OASIS
Committee Specification (CS) by the members of the OASIS Production
Planning and Scheduling TC:
Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) Version 1.0Committee
Specification 0129 September 2011
Overview:The OASIS Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS)
specification deals with problems of decision-making in all
manufacturing companies who want to have a sophisticated information
system for productionplanning and scheduling. The PPS specification
provides XML schema and communication protocols for information
exchange among manufacturing application programs in the web-services
environment. The Core Elements section focuses on information model of
core elements which can be used as ontology in the production planning
and scheduling domain. Since the elements have been designed without
particular contexts in planning and scheduling, they can be used in
any specific type of messages as a building block depending on the
context of application programs. The Transaction Messages section
focuses on transaction messages that represent domain information sent
or received by application programs in accordance with the context of
the communication, as well as transaction rules for contexts such as
pushing and pulling of the information required. Finally, the Profile
Specifications section focuses on profiles of application programs
that may exchange the messages. Application profile and
implementationprofile are defined. Implementation profile shows
capability of application programs in terms of services for message
exchange, selecting from all exchange items defined in the application
profile. The profile can be used for definition of a minimum level of
implementation of application programs which are involved in a
community of data exchange.
URIs:The prose specification document and related files are available here:
PDF (Authoritative):http://docs.oasis-open.org/pps/pps/v1.0/cs01/pps-v1.0-cs01.pdf
HTML:http://docs.oasis-open.org/pps/pps/v1.0/cs01/pps-v1.0-cs01.html
PDF:http://docs.oasis-open.org/pps/pps/v1.0/cs01/pps-v1.0-cs01.doc
XML Schema:http://docs.oasis-open.org/pps/pps/v1.0/cs01/xsd/pps-schema-1.0.xsd
Distribution ZIP filesFor your convenience, OASIS provides a complete
package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP
distribution file. You candownload the ZIP file here:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/pps/pps/v1.0/cs01/pps-v1.0-cs01.zip
Members of the OASIS Production Planning and Scheduling TC [1]
requested a Special Majority Vote to approve this specification as a
Committee Specification. The specification had been released forpublic
review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve at
Committee Specification (CS) level passed [3], and the approved CS01
is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.
Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone.
========== Additional references:
[1] OASIS Production Planning and Scheduling
TChttp://www.oasis-open.org/committees/pps/
[2] Public reviews:30-day public review, 01 August
2011:http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201108/msg00000.html60-day
public review, 11 January
2010:http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201001/msg00003.html
[3] CS ballothttp://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/pps/ballot.php?id=2118
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/chet
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org

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